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One for Andrew, Paul or MrK, please help!
Having noob hardware issues.I've finally managed to scrub Win7 from my PC (none of our customer's software supports it) & get XP installed, but the Ethernet controller, PCI Device, SM Bus Controller, Video Controller & another load o devices aren't working properly so I can't access the network.
The only disk I have contains Win 7 drivers which are no help at all.
How do I get round this?
Can't you download the drivers on someone else's pc (or win 7 if you got it working) and transfer them over on a USB?
What Paul said.
Probably best to concentrate on the ethernet controller - then you might stand a chance of finding the others without too much fannying around. Is it particularly old/new/weird hardware?
Probably best to concentrate on the ethernet controller - then you might stand a chance of finding the others without too much fannying around. Is it particularly old/new/weird hardware?
What did Paul say?
I did indeed run many widths of the office with a USB stick to no avail.
I can't remember the exact spec but it is a pretty new dual core thingummy from Zoostorm, came with Win 7 preinstalled, couldn't get BDE working let alone any of the numerous bits of software required to talk to our customers. So I tried to install XP in a new partition. Win 7 blocked 2 different XP ISOs for "compatibility issues". I finally found an old XP system restore disk, this got most of the way through installing XP, & then crashed, leaving me with an active partition with no bootmgr & every recovery/installation disk failing because the machine couldn't find a particular file. Ubuntu to the rescue, cleared the messed up partition (which did incidentally have the file that the machine couldn't find). After much more faffing I managed to successfully install XP into said partition. After this the PC thought it was a Fujitsu & seemed to not be able to recognise any of its own components, nor would it pick up any drivers from any of the XP disks (not even a generic one) or the Win7 disk that came with the PC. At this point I was (& still am) totally confused & hence my first post.
After more faffing I ended up reinstalling Win 7, just so that I could get *some* work done.
Does anyone else sit at work thinking, "I haven't the slightest idea what I'm doing?"
I did indeed run many widths of the office with a USB stick to no avail.
I can't remember the exact spec but it is a pretty new dual core thingummy from Zoostorm, came with Win 7 preinstalled, couldn't get BDE working let alone any of the numerous bits of software required to talk to our customers. So I tried to install XP in a new partition. Win 7 blocked 2 different XP ISOs for "compatibility issues". I finally found an old XP system restore disk, this got most of the way through installing XP, & then crashed, leaving me with an active partition with no bootmgr & every recovery/installation disk failing because the machine couldn't find a particular file. Ubuntu to the rescue, cleared the messed up partition (which did incidentally have the file that the machine couldn't find). After much more faffing I managed to successfully install XP into said partition. After this the PC thought it was a Fujitsu & seemed to not be able to recognise any of its own components, nor would it pick up any drivers from any of the XP disks (not even a generic one) or the Win7 disk that came with the PC. At this point I was (& still am) totally confused & hence my first post.
After more faffing I ended up reinstalling Win 7, just so that I could get *some* work done.
Does anyone else sit at work thinking, "I haven't the slightest idea what I'm doing?"
Originally posted by orinoco:
Does anyone else sit at work thinking, "I haven't the slightest idea what I'm doing?"
A promising start to the job then!
Originally posted by cat-charlie:
Every day. But I learned to stop worrying about it, about 18 months agoDoes anyone else sit at work thinking, "I haven't the slightest idea what I'm doing?"
here's a plan....
Virtualization!
Microsoft's VirtualPC, or Sun's virtualBox are both free - and run merrily under Windows 7... You can keep trying to get a working XP build going without trashing your machine
Originally posted by Orinoco:
What did Paul say
Sorry - Laurence
Paul Says "See if it has a PCI slot (may not do being so new and shiney), if so put a bog standard NIC in it (I have a few 3c905c's if you need one, ring if so as I won't be able to read this tomorrow) Swap the disk with a blank one and install XP" Crashing half way through install sounds more suspicious than just lack of drivers to me."